Patrick Lambie suffers serious knee injury in Champions Cup final

Pat Lambie (centre) leaves the pitch with a knee injury sustained in the 2018 European Champions Cup final between Racing 92 and Leinster at the San Mames Stadium in Bilbao on May 12, 2018. CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP/Getty Images

Pat Lambie is almost certain to miss the Springboks' Test series against England after sustaining what he believes to be a season-ending anterior cruciate ligament injury in the European Rugby Champions Cup final on Saturday.

The Racing 92 flyhalf had to leave the field in the third minute of the match against Leinster, who went on to win 15-12.

Lambie, 27, sustained the injury as he made a break for his side, and he said after the match that he would go for scans on Monday to determine the extent of the injury.

"I am not all that uncomfortable right now, but the diagnosis doesn't look all that good," Lambie told RugbyPass.

Asked whether the injury would end his season, Lambie said: "It looks like it, yes."

"I'm not saying that all the players will be in the mix in June," Erasmus said when asked about conversations he had held with players such as Lambie, utility back Frans Steyn, hooker Bismarck du Plessis, No 8 Duane Vermeulen, tighthead prop Vincent Koch, scrumhalf Faf de Klerk and centre Juan de Jongh.

"If the players we have here in South Africa are fit and in form, then those guys won't be in the mix. But I had to make sure if those guys are still hungry and motivated to play for the Springboks. It was more of a fact-finding mission."

South Africa play Wales in the United States on June 2, in Washington DC, before returning home for three Tests against England.